At the Harbour
Yesterday the U3A Sketching Group had our fortnightly meeting.
We got together this time at one of the popular cafes, the Bach, on the harbour front at Port Taranaki.
After morning tea we all dispersed a little way to try an exercise suggested by some pages in our "text-book", to try to differentiate foreground from background. Here is my effort:
You can just make out one of the other members working away at the top of the steps in the foreground.
During the week I have been trying to catch the colours in trees near our home with water-colour and pencil.
On the left is a Kowhai you can see from our kitchen window. Two kereru, huge and groggy, had just gorged themselves on berries and flown there for a well-earned snooze.
Below is a totara, which stands just beyond the kowhai. I had been watching the light and shade on it for a few days, especially as the sun moved overhead.
This is my effort to catch the light and colour later in the morning.
One cooler morning I climbed the hill behind us and found a sheltered spot on the northern slope, because the breeze was blowing from the south-west and feeling a bit cool.
I could see a variety of trees as I looked across the suburbs to the coast.
Below is my attempt to catch the trees using coloured pencils.
It has been a busy week: on Wednesday an organ recital to enjoy, on Thursday morning Grandparents' Day at Carys's school (Tikorangi, near Waitara), and yesterday the Sketching Group.
Then this morning we went to watch two of the grandchildren playing sport: here is Carys in the thick of a major soccer championship, and Spencer delighted at catching his sister's action on his camera! After sport we went to the museum to look at the World War I exhibition (the children's great-great-grandfather fought in France), and this afternoon Margaret took them to try out a brand-new entertainment centre.
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